Last week, I started writing a new #fiction project!! 🥳 Every day, I sit down and write 500 divinely inspired words. 📝 I've always dreamed of writing a full-length novel so this year I'm finally doing it! The best synopsis is it's essentially "IRL fan fiction". 😂 Enjoy!! 🎉 bsky.app/profile/phot...

metalabel.substack.com/p/rethinking... @metalabel.bsky.social drops some wisdom: creating the thing is only half the battle. Promoting the thing is equally as important and the entire back half. A creator these days need to do *both*. If no one knows your thing exists, then it doesn't exist!! 😭😭😭

We've done it before! We can do it again! 💪 🇺🇸🤝🇩🇰

Strong agree with this by @simonwillison.net: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/l...

RIP Europe 🪦

robertlin.substack.com/p/59-fiction... "I think we all have these sort of dreams. Ludicrous fantastical yearnings. The purest expression of our innerchild, of —what I would call— our human soul. Penning the next great American novel. Winning a Nobel or two and maybe pick up an Oscar along the way."

For what it's worth, I have the same nuclear take. Here is a large part of my UX work nowadays with LLMs. I'm totally being unironic - this is how I literally build a lot of my UX now and how CSS is auto generated by the truckload in my projects: bsky.app/profile/now....

I love how seemingly overnight my bsky feed overwhelmingly has turned pro-AI. For a while, if I celebrated AI at all, I'd be attacked on Bluesky. But now everyone everywhere loves it as much as I do. Thank you, @spacecowboy17.bsky.social!! You have done a great service for all of humanity!! 🙏

hehehe... currently building something on #atproto to use it for what it was *really* meant for!! 😏 bsky.app/profile/data...

i love the beginning of the year because everyone starts blogging. and if you (yes you) were thinking about starting, this is your sign

@codenprose.bsky.social just started reading "The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025" today! Grateful that Stripe Press and @dwarkesh.bsky.social put out this compilation. Looking forward to our discussion end of January! If anyone else's interested please do read! Would love to discuss!

I'm a busy lady, full-time developer, 3 kids, major trust issues with social media, and not a ton of bandwidth for learning. This post by @jimray.bsky.team effectively describes why I'm betting my limited free time on #ATProto jimray-bsky.leaflet.pub/3maenxn7kqc2a

@jbog.org "This summer, there can be only one!!" ✊🏆🥇 jamesvsrobert.com (ps. special thanks to @ryanbulcher.com - the vibe-coding god of the seven seas for all your AI coding pro-tips!! 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♀️🙇 what a time to be alive!! 🔥💥‼️) v.1.12.5

Wait, @standard.site has an excerpting mechanism now, Substack-style? 👀 The "excerpt-text-as-a-beautiful-square" mechanism in Substack is my absolute favorite feature and one big reason I use that platform. Is this baked into the lexicon now for longform writing on #atproto?

Who's ready for tomorrow?

This is my big challenge too! I literally enjoy coding, being in the trenches, digging the holes and taping together everything by hand. I don't enjoy describing the process. Unfortunately, this means I'm basically cooked as a software developer in any kind of professional setting moving forward. 🤷‍♂️

2026 is gonna be the atmosyear

This is a great test! I used to believe that PCs were the way. Now I'm all in on Macs! 🍎

S+I have been rewatching all of Mad Men over the holidays. The first time we watched MM was back in 2020 during COVID. Man, this show's honestly just on another level though. I love other shows too like The West Wing, WW, & Shogun. But the period setting and writing of Mad Men makes it 🥇 for me. #TV

This is utterly unhinged in the best possible way. High praise for running a tour of the plane while it's a quarter-built and mid-flight. steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-g... Some choice excerpts.

A thousand yeses! I have a similar strategy for apps: I deliberately haven't installed many apps on my phone which forces me to goto their jankier websites (w/ awful popup cookie consent banners) on mobile. That's saved me tons of scrolling. If a page takes too long to load,I often just abandon too.

💯 this! I wouldn't limit it to app design either. Eg: two months ago I got new sweatpants w/ pockets that zip. I've found simply by having my phone in a zipped pocket and introducing that tiny bit of friction dramatically reduced my phone use! As @jamesclear.bsky.social famously said: "We don't rise

this harmonica band at the Hong Kong airport had no reason to go so hard at 8am on New Year's Day but I loved it

It went well! They say it'll take a week to fully recover. I'll be honest - I was nervous all morning! When I watched the sun rise this morning I genuinely wondered: "Is this the last sunrise I'll ever see?"🤔 Luckily, everything went smoothly! Don't let fear rule your life. bsky.app/profile/now....

Want to discover great posts beyond who you already follow? The For You feed, built by @spacecowboy17.bsky.social, is a personalized algorithmic feed based on your likes. It's one of our favorites for finding cool conversations across the network. Try it here: bsky.app/profile/spac...

Are any of my bsky mutuals interested in joining a new now feed? Currently cooking some new #atproto experiments!👨‍🍳. @alice.mosphere.at? @dame.is? 2026 is gonna be the Year of #atproto!! Mark my words! I literally **feel** the vibeshift happening!! 🥳🎉 To the stars!! 🌎🚀✨ bsky.app/profile/now....

Now AI-assisted coding's here, the pendulum's ab to swing back to joy. Mark my words. We are in for an artistic renaissance. Prepare yourselves - GUIs and UXs in 2026 are gonna take off like we've never seen. For me personally, I've been playing with the tools and AI will legit change everything.

Building the thing alone is insufficient. As important is memorializing the final output in a formal documented release bc yrs later when you're looking back and wondering what you did w/ your life, if you don't have easily legible artifacts as proof-of-work, you'll have no record of what you did. 😔

Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go.

Celebrated NYE last night w/ S at Music Hall seeing Cincinnati Pops perform cabaret. Positively sublime.🥳🎉 The Washington Park subterranean lot was totally full though so I had to park all the way on Central+hoof it over! Luckily we'd gotten there early+still made the show on time. Happy NYD, all!🎇🎆

Over the holidays, I've been basking in slow mornings. Getting breakfast at a local cafe and enjoying it in my personal tiny fortress.🤗🏰 Specifically, I've been re-listening to S1 of New Creative Era by @joshuacitarella.bsky.social + @metalabel.bsky.social. Loved this quote from Prof Michael Walzer:

Last year I started a new tradition to annually publicly thank people I've discovered who've changed my life. I do genuinely believe we're all connected. Every post, every reply, every like makes a difference. This year, I want to thank Indie Thinkers, New Creative Era, Pirate Wires, and Dialectic.❤️

One of us! One of us! One of us! 🙂 I've gotten tons of personal work (writing+hobby projects) done during my PTO. If it replenishes you, then that's what matters! Relaxing too long honestly doesn't do much for me.🙂‍↔️ If I'm not moving, being active, and knocking tasks off a list, then I get restless!

For Christmas last week, S & I saw a lovely jazz performance at Memorial Hall here in Cincy. Built in 1908 by the Grand Army of the Republic, the theater is engraved with nine values: 1. Unity 2. Wisdom 3. Martyrdom 4. Patriotism 5. Philanthropy 6. Integrity 7. Manliness 8. Equity 9. Will

www.wsj.com/articles/BL-... As reported in the @wsj.com back in November 2009, this quote from Lloyd Blankfein, then CEO of Goldman Sachs, continues to occupy permanent space in my brain to this day: Blankfein: being an investment banker is "doing God's work". Efficient allocation of capital!!💰💰💰

a comic about blocking

Salvatore Ganacci is truly the Mozart of our era

PSA: The @codenewbie.org site's gone offline! It's been a while since I last checked but today I went to look up an article I'd written on the platform back in Apr 2021 only to find this!😭 (And this is precisely the worst case scenario of platform risk!) @dev.to - is there any ETA when CN'll return?

The For You feed is going to be down while I'm upgrading the CPU from AMD 7900 (12 core) to AMD 9950X3D (16 core). This should increase how many users it can serve by ~50%-100%. If all goes well it should be back up in an hour or two.

If it works, I'm happy for them! We are in the dawn of a new age - I encourage folks to keep an open mind! Many people turning to ChatGPT for emotional support have been really struggling. I encourage empathy!! ❤️

I've said this before but I'll repeat it here again for posterity: coding w/ AI & coding w/o AI, to me, are **categorically different** activities. It's akin to comparing horseback riding to driving a car. They both get you somewhere but entail totally different mechanics, dynamics, and aesthetics.

Lol, I was literally just looking and thinking about this. Synchronicity! The moment I have an extended break, I depart from my usual routine and everything goes pear-shaped. 🤦‍♂️

💯 this☝️. I know I already mentioned this elsewhere, Cowboy, but if everyone literally just gave $1, then 10k people giving monthly would be $10k/mo! The long tail adds up to real money!!💰💰💰 eg. Personally, I'm trying to donate a % of my own remaining lifetime earnings to OSS via GH Sponsorships and

Done! I know $2/mo isn't much but 1) I'm hoping ppl will join suit+contribute micropayments to creators we love on the web! Individually, we're drops, but together, we can be a wave!🌊❤️ and 2) one day when I become super-rich (I'm working on it!!💵💰💪), I promise I'll donate more! Merry Christmas!!🎅🎄🎁☃️

Hi 👋 I’m Sam, I create visual essays about programming. My posts from 2025: - samwho.dev/reservoir-sa... - samwho.dev/big-o/ - ngrok.com/blog/prompt-... I also appeared on other folks’ websites: - simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/19/... - writethatblog.substack.com/p/sam-rose-o...

So I❤️trains too! But for cultural/geographical reasons, I genuinely❤️cars in America. When I'm in my car, I leave when I want+have total freedom. There's currently some growing pains, but eventually autonomous driving will be ubiquitous. In 50yrs, we'll have exhibits ab this current time in museums!🙂

Really loving my Oura Ring 4!! Just started wearing it two days ago! 🥳 Specifically, I love how you receive metrics for *literally everything*. For example, I love that I am a "93% efficiency sleeper"!! 😴 The idea of applying efficiency to something like sleep is positively amazing/hilarious to me.

So cool! Sam, you're one of the people I talk with the most here on bsky!!🥳 @olof-loves-ai.bsky.social how does one give you money? I see you're on @github.com - if you enable sponsorships on GitHub, I'd love to buy you a coffee every month! Ty for building cool things on #atproto! You are a hero!🔥

I agree w/ Austin. AI changes everything. Code is no longer precious. Code and apps are now just commodities, instruments towards larger, more important ends (disseminating ideas, actually doing things, etc). A loose analogy: as I write this, I'm sitting outside, drinking coffee from a paper cup I

Just received and set up!! Ty for recommending, @maggieappleton.com! Looking forward to playing with my new toy. 🙂 Hooray for the self-quantification movement!! Let's quantify everything and legible-maxx for the machines!! 🥳🎉